"...as neere is Fancie to Beautie, as the pricke to the Rose, as the stalke to the rynde, as the earth to the roote."(1588.Lyly, John.Euphues and his England)
"Good Lord Boyet, my beauty, though but mean, Needs not the painted flourish of your praise:
Beauty is bought by judgement of the eye, Not utter'd by base sale of chapmen's tongues" (1588.Shakespeare.Love's Labours Lost)
"Beauty, like supreme dominion Is but supported by opinion" (1741.Benjamin Franklin.Poor Richard's Almanack)
"Beauty in things exists merely in the mind which contemplates them." (1742.Hume, David.Essays, Moral and Political)
"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder" (1878.Wolfe-Hungerford, Margaret.Molly Bawn) "A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees." (1793.BLAKE.WILLIAM, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell)